REMAINER Labour MP David Lammy launched a blistering tirade against key supporters of the Brexit campaign to leave the European Union, claiming that a “radical right stands behind them”.

Speaking in a rally in Liverpool where the Labour Party conference is being held, he told a cheering crowd that “this cannot be a Labour Party that allows other to wreck our country and stand with the far right".

The rally was made up of Labour MPs, MEP, Union leaders and Labour party activists hoping to pressure the Labour leadership into supporting a so-called ‘people’s vote’ on the final Brexit deal agreed by Theresa May’s government.

Mr Lammy addressed the crowd this afternoon and suggested the country was facing a ‘tipping point’ into far-right extremism.

The MP for Tottenham told the rally: “We march because we are aware that this country is at a tipping point. Are we to become the country of Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, and Nigel Farage?

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“We can see a radical right that stands behind them. That joins forces with Donald Trump and Marie Le Penn. We saw that we do not want that in our country.

“I think of my parents and that Windrush generation that came to this country. I think of the Labour Party that gave us the race relations act, and the party that gave us the enquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

“I say this cannot be a Labour Party that allows others to wreck our country and stand with the far right.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said that he would back a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU if Labour activists at the party conference this weekend demand it.

He made his comments to the Andrew Marr show after a new poll found just eight percent of Labour members are opposed to another referendum after the conclusion of the Brexit talks.

The same poll revealed 90 percent of members would now vote to remain in the European Union.

The YouGov survey of 1,054 Labour members found even in the North and Midlands, where many Labour constituencies voted Leave, there was overwhelming support for a second referendum.

In the North, 86 percent of respondents said they backed a say on the final deal while 88 percent in the Midlands supported the idea.

Mr Corbyn said that he would allow a ‘clear vote’ during party conference over the question of whether the Labour Party would formally back a people’s vote and that he would be ‘bound’ by their decision.

Mrs May has repeatedly rejected calls for a second referendum saying that such a vote would be a “gross betrayal of our democracy”.

But Mrs May’s Brexit plan was flatly rejected by EU leaders at a summit in Salzburg this week.

In a fiery response to the bloc’s “unacceptable” attitude, the Prime Minister warned she would sooner leave without a withdrawal agreement rather than accept a “bad deal”.

In her surprise speech outside Downing Street she said:"The referendum was the largest democratic exercise this country has ever undergone. To deny its legitimacy or frustrate its result threatens public trust in our democracy.

"No one wants a good deal more than me.

"But the EU should be clear: I will not overturn the result of the referendum. Nor will I break up my country.

"We need serious engagement on resolving the two big problems in the negotiations. We stand ready."